Stone Hearted
I
was in my office looking at x-rays and this man slowly comes in my office
one day. He said his heart was, all of the sudden, feeling weird.
He didn’t seem sad or scared. I asked him when it started to feel weird
and he said it began only two nights ago. He said he was watching a really
sad movie and he was crying like it was drizzling in his head. Then, all
of the sudden, it started to get all tingly and he stopped crying. He said
that he quickly stopped crying for the rest of the movie and he hasn’t
cried or been scared ever since.
I told him to go to
the dark x-ray room. I took x-rays of his heart and then looked at them.
I let out a huge gasp. "You have a heart of stone!!" I yelled out. He asked
if I can do anything about it and I said yes. I led him to the big surgery
room. I gave him sleeping gas and he passed out just like that. I rapidly
took out a small chisel, a hammer, a brush, and a pair of scissors. I cut
open his chest and I started the surgery. I took the chisel and hammer
and chipped off the stone covering. First I took the stone covering off
the right ventricle and then the left. After that I chipped off all the
rest. I took the brush and I brushed off all the little stone dust off
the heart. I sewed up his chest and turned off the sleeping gas and let
him rest.
A few minutes later I checked on him.
He was sitting up in his bed crying. I asked what was the matter? He had
on the TV and he was watching a sad movie. He thanked me and an hour later
he left.
By
Keith